But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.
Michael OndaatjeOver the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.
Michael OndaatjePolitically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.
Michael OndaatjeAnd it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.
Michael Ondaatje